Manager, Legal Contract Transformation

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com.

As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

Job Function:

Job Sub Function:

Job Category:

All Job Posting Locations:

Job Description:

Manager, GSINC Template Transformation

Scope: Global

Function: Global Legal Organization

Reports to: Director, GSINC Template Transformation

We are searching for top talent for the Manager, GSINC Legal Template Transformation role within the Global Simplification and Innovation in Contracting program, GSINC.

Do you seek big, complex, and ambiguous challenges? Are you passionate about transforming enterprise contracting through simplified processes, modern technology, intelligent data, and responsible AI? Do you want to help build a capability that improves how Johnson & Johnson works with its employees, suppliers, customers, healthcare professionals, research and other partners?

GSINC is building an integrated, AI-enabled contracting capability developed to make contracting faster, simpler, more consistent, and more valuable to the enterprise. The program brings together process, policy, templates, technology, data, and intelligence to establish a scalable contracting foundation across Johnson & Johnson.

Position Summary

This role drives and implements the transformed global contracting. The role translates approved legal strategy and risk parameters into scalable, user-centered content.

Collaborating with Legal, SMEs, contracting teams, business teams, and other functions, the Manager drives transformation activities from drafting and supporting approvals through localization, deployment, adoption, and improvement. This is an individual contributor role.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess, consolidate, simplify, draft, validate and approve templates, clauses, fallback positions, playbooks, exhibits, and guidance.
• Develop plain-language, user-centered content that maintains critical legal and compliance protections while reducing complexity, negotiation friction, blocking issues, and cycle time.
• Promote consistent legal positions and risk treatment; challenge legacy approaches, resolve issues within delegated authority, and call out material decisions with clear recommendations.
• Manage localization of globally neutral content, limiting variations to approved legal or operational requirements.
• Drive implementation activities, workshops, validation, testing, deployment readiness, and resolution of risks and dependencies.
• Build alignment across Legal, SMEs, contracting and business teams, and enabling functions.
• Collaborate closely with team members and external partners to deliver the role’s responsibilities.

Education and Professional Qualifications

• Juris Doctor, LL.B., or equivalent proven professional contracting experience
• Training or experience in legal operations, contracting or project management is helpful.

Experience and Key Skills

• Minimum 4 years of relevant legal or contracting experience, with experience in commercial contracting or life sciences.
• Advanced English level is required
• Proven experience simplifying, harmonizing, governing, or implementing contract templates, clauses, fallback positions, or playbooks.
• Ability to balance risk, compliance, business value, market practice, and user experience.
• Excellent project management, communication, facilitation, problem-solving, and team coordination skills.

Key Competencies

• Legal Judgment and Risk Management – Applies good judgment to balance enterprise protection, simplicity, and business value.
• Template Transformation – Builds clear, consistent, scalable, and technology-ready contracting content.
• Execution and Governance – Converts direction into disciplined delivery, controls, decisions, and measurable outcomes.
• Teamwork and Influence – Builds alignment and supports timely decisions across global interested parties.
• Technology, Data, and Change Enablement – Supports implementation, adoption, automation, analytics, and continuous improvement.

This is not a comprehensive list of responsibilities; other duties may be assigned.

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers, internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills: